U+0149 "ʼn" Latin Small Letter N Preceded by Apostrophe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+0149 "ʼn" Latin Small Letter N Preceded by Apostrophe is a historic typographic ligature used in Afrikaans, representing the word "en" (meaning "and") when pronounced as a single syllable, such as in the phrase "ʼn man" (a man). It was encoded for compatibility with legacy text, but its use is now deprecated in modern Unicode, which recommends writing it as a separate apostrophe followed by the letter "n" (’n) to avoid processing issues, as the single character can be confused with a punctuation mark. The character is also found in older Dutch and other languages where it served a similar abbreviated function.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0149
Name
Latin Small Letter N Preceded by Apostrophe
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter Apostrophe N
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ʼn
HTML Hex Encoding
ʼn
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC5 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0149
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000149
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0149
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin